Detroit police said two homeless children were frozen while sleeping with their families in the van on Monday, but the city mayor said his mother had reached out to homeless services a few months ago. It has been revealed that.
The two-year-old child, a two-year-old girl and a nine-year-old boy died Monday after his family pulled into a Greek town casino and parked on the ninth floor to sleep, police said.
The seven families lived in the van, according to the Detroit Police Department.
Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan, left, Detroit Interim Police Chief Todd Bettyson spoke at a news briefing after the deaths of their two children. (David Rodriguez Muñoz / USA Today Network via Imagn Images)
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In the middle of the night – When temperatures dropped outside from 10 quarters, the van stopped running due to some mechanical reason or lack of gas, so the mother called a family friend to help It's now, police said. .
Then, around noon on Monday, the mother noticed that the 9-year-old boy was not breathing.
A family friend took the child to the hospital, but later the child's grandmother reported that the two-year-old girl was also not breathing.
Police said a friend would return to the parking lot and take the girl to the hospital.
Interim Police Chief Todd Bettyson said at a press conference Tuesday that both children died from hypothermia and both children died. He said the Wayne County Examination Office would ultimately determine the cause of death.
Detroit Police Captain Nathan Duda, whose other three children – ages 13, 8 and 4 – were physically fine, but were checked out. Fox 2.
“(I'm) sad, very sad, especially as a father. I can't imagine what my family is feeling. I wish it didn't happen,” Duda said. “This wasn't necessary. It didn't have to happen like this.”
Detroit police said two homeless children were frozen while sleeping with their families in the van on Monday, but the city mayor said his mother had reached out to homeless services a few months ago. It has been revealed that. (Fox 2 Detroit)
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He said the child's mother was detained and provided a statement but has not been detained at this time.
Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan said Tuesday that his mother contacted the city's homelessness response team at least three times, most recently in November.
“During the course of that conversation, we didn't get to a resolution on where they were going,” Duggan said in a news briefing. He said the incident was “a terrible day for Detroit.”
He said the family didn't call the city's homelessness response team after that November call, and the city didn't follow up with the family afterwards.
“For some reason, this was not considered an emergency,” Duggan said.
Duggan said her mother told staff on the homelessness response team that she was staying with her family but couldn't stay there for too long.
He said the family called the city's homelessness response team twice, once in the summer and once in the previous year.
Duggan said the beds were in a shelter, a few miles from the Hollywood casino in Greece Town.
“It has to make us rethink everything we do. The heartbreaking part of this is the family shelter beds available a few miles away,” Duggan said.
Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan said the family called the city's homeless response team in November but did not follow up with either the family or the homeless service. (David Rodriguez Muñoz / USA Today Network via Imagn Images)
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“It brings back that it doesn't make much sense to have the service available if residents who need it don't know how to access them.”
He said the city's homeless services added 400 shelter beds this winter, adding between 900 and 1,300 beds.
Additionally, 120 drop-in beds have been added, allowing homeless outreach workers to be placed on shifts 24/7, making them available 24/7 for those in need.
He said everything will be investigated in this case from a housing service perspective.
